A Miami man who fatally shot his wife in front of the couple’s teen daughter three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison. Alberto Molinet, 73, was given the life sentence at a hearing Friday. A jury convicted him in July of second-degree murder in the killing of wife Yulima Romero back on Sept. 10, 2023. Police and prosecutors said the ...

The first mRNA flu shot is now available, but not everyone is eligible. Modernas mFlusiva is the first flu vaccine in the United States to use messenger RNA technology, the same platform used in Pfizer and Modernas Covid shots. Scientists have long been interested in using mRNA against the flu because the vaccines can be made faster, potentially making ...

As immigration enforcement continues to affect families and businesses across South Florida, a national civil rights organization and a social media influencer are teaming up to provide financial assistance to Doral families whose loved ones have been detained by federal immigration authorities. The initiative, called the Doral Family Emergency Fund, ...

Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death. The Florida Department of Health confirmed the death Friday, though it didn’t provide further details. It’s one of more than 130 locally acquired dengue cases reported so far this year in Hillsborough County, which typically sees only a ...

Pelle Larsson and the Miami Heat have agreed on a four-year contract extension that could be worth up to $60 million if the final year of the deal is included, a person with knowledge of the talks said Friday. Larsson’s starting salary for 2027-28 will be $13.5 million and increase from there, with a mutual option for the 2030-31 season, said the ...

A couple is suing a Florida fertility clinic alleging that it used the wrong sperm in their IVF treatments, resulting in a baby that genetically belongs to a different man. According to lawyers for Natalie and Josh Strong, the couple suing Brown Fertility in Jacksonville, they went through extensive and painful medical procedures and spent thousands of ...

Amazon will be dolling out additional payments and to more customers as part of its $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. In 2025, Amazon settled allegations brought by the FTC that it misled customers into enrolling in its Prime membership and then deliberately made it difficult to cancel the service. Although the e-commerce ...

Very high moisture levels and light winds will once again lead to slow-moving showers and t-storms in South Florida on Friday. A flood advisory was issued for Broward County until 4 p.m. Friday as flooding caused by excessive rainfall was expected, the National Weather Service said. 9/18 @ 1:30PM: Slow moving thunderstorms continue to drop heavy ...

Darian Mensah spent a lone season at Duke posting some of the nation’s top passing numbers while leading the Blue Devils to a rare Atlantic Coast Conference championship. Things didn’t go nearly so smoothly at nearby North Carolina for Gio Lopez, who said he had never failed in such a public eye” before. A year later, they’re squaring off ...

A former Miami-Dade elementary school teacher arrested last week for allegedly engaging in lewd conduct with or molesting multiple students is facing more charges after a sixth victim came forward, records showed. Cesar Oriol Cardoso, 53, had been arrested Sept. 11 on more than a dozen charges including offenses against students by authority figures, ...

A portion of Dolphin Mall was evacuated on Friday due to a smell of gas, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said. Fire rescue officials said crews responded to a hazardous situation with reports of a smell of gas at the mall on Northwest 12th Street. A section of the mall was evacuated as a precaution. The gas company was notified and crews were on ...

When Chakia Bradford, 32, first noticed she was short of breath in April of last year, she assumed it was bad allergies. The pollen count was up in her home of Humble, Texas, so I really didnt think too much of it, Bradford, who works in law enforcement, tells TODAY.com. And then maybe a week and a half later, I still have shortness of breath, she ...

Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for Spring Awakening, has died. He was 56. Sheik died Thursday from organ failure, his mother Suzanne Sheik told The New York Times. The Associated Press emailed his representatives for comment. Sheik had been best known for his lasting radio hit Barely Breathing when ...

A woman was critically injured after she was mauled by multiple dogs in northwest Miami-Dade Thursday night in an incident that ended with a deputy opening fire, officials said. Deputies had responded to the area of Northwest 145th Street and 11th Court shortly after 6 p.m. after receiving a report of a woman being attacked by multiple dogs, Miami-Dade ...

In the summer of 1926, Miami was at the height of its glory. The city was turning into a paradise destination for tourists and residents arriving from the Northso much so that in just five years Miami-Dade had doubled its population. Many of the new residents moving to the southern part of the state had no idea what it was like to live through a ...

Former Miami Hurricanes star Mark Pope was arrested for armed robbery, records showed. The 27-year-old was booked into Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday, records show. He also faces an aggravated battery charge. Further details of the arrest weren’t available. Pope, a wide receiver who grew up in Miami, attended ...

The Florida Department of Health is proposing a rule to allow pharmacists to administer a vaccine for chikungunya disease. Chikungunya disease, a viral infection, is a mosquito-borne illness that can cause fever and severe joint pain. It can be confused with dengue and Zika, which makes the illness hard to diagnose, according to the World Health ...

Miami police are asking the public for help as they continue searching for a 41-year-old woman who has been missing since 2024. The City of Miami Police Department’s Special Victims Unit says the woman was last seen at 334 Southwest 17th Road. Evaneide Dos Santos Rodrigues is described as a Black woman, who stands 5 feet and 3 inches tall and ...

Heart-stopping cellphone video appears to capture the fight before a Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent shot and killed a person in Southwest Miami-Dade. Deputies responded to the shooting shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday in the area of Southwest 157th Avenue and Southwest 140th Street. Investigators said the agent was inside his vehicle when a ...

Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still ...

Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, after more than 60 years guiding the firm that turned him into a household name for millions of investors worldwide. Buffett was named chairman emeritus effective immediately, with his son Howard G. Buffett taking over as chairman, Berkshire said in a statement Friday. As Chairman ...

One person was shot early Friday while three people attempted to rob them in Miami-Dade, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies responded to the area of Northwest 95th Street and Southwest 5th Avenue at around 1:55 a.m. According to a preliminary investigation, three unidentified armed subjects arrived in a red SUV before they demanded ...

Deputies are searching for a subject who shot a teen during a verbal altercation Thursday in southwest Miami-Dade, officials said. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies responded at around 6:23 p.m. to the area of 123rd Avenue and 203rd Street in reference to a shooting. The incident began when the victim, a male juvenile, and the subject were inside a ...

A man accused of impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and threatening employees at a Miami Gardens food truck is behind bars, according to authorities. Investigators identified the suspect asJonathan Gonzalez Reyes, who faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault and impersonating an officer. Exclusive ...

The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States and is charged by Congress to maintain a stable economy and financial system. One of the ways the Fed does this is by increasing and lowering the cost of borrowing money. Interest rate cuts are intended to encourage more borrowing and spending by people and companies. That spending, in turn, ...